jimnyc
11-29-2016, 02:17 PM
I have to wonder WHY? The only reason I can possibly come up with is for future relations. But WHY send someone to a memorial for a brutal dictator? I would have sent a kind note telling him to burn in hell, and ask them to please place it in his coffin.
(or as I read now, to respect the Cuban people, and I can kind of understand that) But I would still spit in the coffin then.
Then again, maybe Obama himself is going? Maybe no one is going. I mean, this IS from Breitbart, after all. :)
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Senior White House Aide Ben Rhodes Will Attend Fidel Castro’s Memorial
A senior White House aide to President Barack Obama will attend Cuba dictator Fidel Castro’s service, according to the White House press secretary Josh Earnest.
The White House decided against sending an official delegation to represent the United States at Fidel Castro’s memorial, but will allow senior aide Ben Rhodes to attend as an informal symbol of his work to normalize relations with the communist country.
“America sometimes makes itself a prisoner of our own history. We have a very complicated history with Cuba,” Rhodes explained during a discussion of his work for Obama in the Atlantic.
Earnest said that Rhodes had already planned a trip to Cuba this week, and would attend along with Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the Chargé d’Affaires at the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba.
Rest here - http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/29/senior-white-house-aide-ben-rhodes-will-attend-fidel-castros-funeral/
(or as I read now, to respect the Cuban people, and I can kind of understand that) But I would still spit in the coffin then.
Then again, maybe Obama himself is going? Maybe no one is going. I mean, this IS from Breitbart, after all. :)
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Senior White House Aide Ben Rhodes Will Attend Fidel Castro’s Memorial
A senior White House aide to President Barack Obama will attend Cuba dictator Fidel Castro’s service, according to the White House press secretary Josh Earnest.
The White House decided against sending an official delegation to represent the United States at Fidel Castro’s memorial, but will allow senior aide Ben Rhodes to attend as an informal symbol of his work to normalize relations with the communist country.
“America sometimes makes itself a prisoner of our own history. We have a very complicated history with Cuba,” Rhodes explained during a discussion of his work for Obama in the Atlantic.
Earnest said that Rhodes had already planned a trip to Cuba this week, and would attend along with Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the Chargé d’Affaires at the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba.
Rest here - http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/29/senior-white-house-aide-ben-rhodes-will-attend-fidel-castros-funeral/